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Ilham Tohti, an economist and professor in Urumqi, is an advocate of Uyghur rights in Xinjiang. He certainly did not deserve the life sentence he just received from the PRC for “advocating separatism”, not only because he was a distinctly non-violent working in the system type of guy, but also because he doesn’t advocate Xinjiang... Read More